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Louise Weinberg - Artists Statement

My work focuses on the issue of containment – the human desire for the safety of enclosure and structure vs. the terror of possible entrapment. My abstract paintings depict an array of containers- grids, buildings, eggs, spheres, circles, squares and cubes.They suggest that a container can protect, imprison or both.

In my Spheres Emerging Series, I paint spheres, which are also containers, but the spheres now appear to be free, no longer held down, nor struggling to burst out. These paintings are concerned with the notion of form developing within a space. The spheres are ambiguous -at once huge or molecular. The space that surrounds the form is ambiguous as well -sometimes deep, sometimes shallow.

Painting for me is a slow gradual emergence of form into space. Using palette knives, nails, combs, rags -I push, pull, dig and scrape - searching for layers underneath as I continue to add more paint on top of older layers. This way of working always allows me to make surprising discoveries, which I find to be an essential part of the painting process. My paintings emerge gradually and only after much struggle, not unlike the way a person’s sense of self emerges over the course of a lifetime.


























Artist Exhibitions






Solo Exhibitions
2006 “Louise Weinberg – New Paintings”, Diamond-Newman Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
2006 “Louise Weinberg – New Paintings and Drawings”, Art Gallery, Brookline Senior Center, Brookline, MA.
1998 “Louise Weinberg - Recent Work”, Brandeis University Gerstenzang Science Center, Waltham. MA.
1997 “Louise Weinberg - New Paintings”, Jewish Community Center, Newton, MA.

Selected Two Person and Juried Group Exhibitions
2008 “Louise Weinberg and Christine Vaillancourt” Diamond-Newman Fine Arts. Boston,MA.
“Then and Now”, SMFA Alumna, Pooke Gallery,Walnut Hill School, Natick,MA.
2007 “Paint”. National competition juried by Gerry Bergstein, Bancroft Gallery, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset MA. Honorable Mention award in Painting.
“Small Works” ,Bromfield Gallery, Juried show of small paintings, Boston, MA.
“Plus One”, a special exhibition featuring Bromfield artists + invited guests, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
“Egg Paintings”, Donovan Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island DeltaAirline Terminal- Logan Airport- Group Show: Selected Allston Artists,
Boston, MA.

2006 “Square Constructions– “Louise Weinberg and Cheryl Jaffe”, BAAK Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
“Size Matters”, Rhys Gallery, Boston,MA. Juried by William Stover, Director of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA and Barbara Lee, Art Consultant.
“Women’s Caucus for Art Regional Juried Exhibition”, Juried by Mary Fifield, MFA, president of BHCC and Laura Montgomery MFA, BHCC Gallery Director, Bunker Hill Community College Boston, MA.
“Faith in Art”, juried by Laura Montgomery MFA, BHCC Gallery Director, Bunker Hill Community College. Boston, MA.

2005 “Boston Arts Festival”, Juried show,Christopher Columbus Park.Boston,MA.
“Myth, Dream and Fantasy”, Gallery 1581 at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, Brookline, MA.

2004 Boston Arts Festival”, curated by Joanna Soltan, curator-SMFA, Judith Tannenbaum, Curator of Contemporary Art-RISD and Camilo Alvarez, co-director Samson Project Gallery, Boston, MA.

2003 “Egg Paintings”, North End Gallery, Boston, MA.
“Boston Arts Festival “, Inaugural festival curated by Carole Anne Meahan, Director ICA/Vita Brevis, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA.
“Jeff Koons Medal Award Dinner”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
”Hubbub”, Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts. Boston, MA.

2002 “Small, Smaller, Smallest”, Bromfield Art Gallery, Boston, MA.
“Barnet Rubenstein and His Legacy”, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,MA.
“Boit Competition”,Grossman Gallery,School of the Museum of Fine Arts” Boston,MA.
“Robert Rauschenberg Medal Award Dinner”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
”Domestic Bliss”, Bentley College Art Gallery, Waltham, MA.
“New Art 2002”, National Emerging Artists’ Competition curated by Allison Kemmerer, Curator of Contemporary Art, Addison Gallery of American Art, MPG Gallery, Boston, MA.

2001 “Boit Competition”,Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
“The Chicken Show”, The Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA.
“Student Annual”, Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
2000 “Cambridge Art Association Fall Salon”, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
1999 “Cambridge Art Association Fall Salon’, Lowell Street Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
“Cambridge Art Association Group Show”, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
“Group Show”, Signature Gallery, Chestnut Hill, MA.
“Newton Art Association Anniversary Show”, The New Art Center, Newton, MA.
1998 “Louise Weinberg”, Newton South Cooperative Bank, Newton, MA.
“Newton Art Association”, Newton Free Library, Newton, MA
“Newton Art Association’, The Armenian Museum and Library of America, Watertown, MA.
“The Art of Monoprinting”,Jewish Community Center Auditorium Gallery, Newton,MA. “Louise Weinberg”, Grove Bank, Newton, MA.
1997 “About Cambridge”,University Place Gallery, Juried show, Cambridge Art Association,Cambridge, MA.
“Group Show”, Gallery 333, North Falmouth, MA.
“Louise Weinberg”, Newton South Cooperative Bank, Newton, MA.

Selected Bibliography:

Studio Visit Magazine -Paintings to be featured National Magazine
published by OSP, publishers of New American Paintings. Edition to be available to the public in Sept 08.

Susan Mulski, “The Chicken Show”, Art New England, December/January 2002, Vol.23, No. 1

Cover Art – “Hierarchy” by Louise Weinberg in Salamander – the New England Journal For Poetry, Fiction and Memoirs, Vo.10, No. 2005

Awards:
2008 Imago Foundation Award for Excellence in Painting, Warren Rhode Island
2007 Honorable Mention –“Paint!” National show juried by Gerry Bergstein.South Shore Art Center
1999 Second Prize – Newton Art Association’s 50th Anniversary Exhibition, The Armenian Museum and Library of America, Watertown, Massachusetts.
1998 First Prize –“Annual Art Show”, Newton Art Association, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, Massachusetts.
1997 First Prize – “Annual Art Show”, Newton Art Association, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, Massachusetts.

Represented by Diamond-Newman Fine Arts, 450 Harrison Avenue. Boston, MA.
Diana Levine Fine Art, One Design Center Place, Boston, MA.
The Donovan Gallery, Tiverton Four Corners, Tiverton, RI.


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